Dave Grohl Quotes
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Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'
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When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
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I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
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I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
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It's funny; recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
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I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.
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The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.
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Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.
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I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
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CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.
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It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
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From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.
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Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
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We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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Everybody now thinks that Nashville is the coolest city in America.
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CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.
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What we feel most comfortable doing is playing loud, screaming rock songs.
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I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?
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I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.